planner

## Planner 2019 R1: Introduction

Planner is an independent software application that works in conjunction with your CAD software package and PC-DMIS to aid the Design Engineer or Quality Engineer in designing a plan, called an inspection plan. An inspection plan determines which features of the geometry and GD&T/dimension to use in the inspection process.

Planner uses the PC-DMIS CAD engine, providing access to IGES, STEP, and the other translators, as well as supported Direct CAD Interfaces™. This gives you wide coverage of available CAD engines and systems.

You can save the inspection plan directly into a .cad file or you can output it to a text file (a .xml or .ip file). You can then use PC-DMIS to automatically generate a measurement routine from an imported inspection plan. This routine is then available for either a CMM or CNC machine tool for in-process inspection.

In the standard product, Planner can import the following file types: IGES, STEP, VDAFS, XYZ, IP, XML and CSV.

Additionally, Planner can optionally support the following, which must be enabled on your LMS license or portlock settings:

- Direct CAD Translators (DCT): CATIA v4, CATIA v5, CATIA v6, Creo, JT, Parasolid, NX, and SolidWorks.

- Direct CAD Interfaces (DCI): CATIA v5, Creo, SolidWorks, and NX.

For information on your license or portlock settings, contact a Hexagon representative.

This documentation covers these main topics or chapters:

- Using Planner: An Overview of Essential Steps

- Setting Preferences

- Common Procedures

- The User Interface

For information on working with inspection plans inside PC-DMIS, consult the "Using Inspection Plans in PC-DMIS" topic in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.